Microsoft-TS Windows HPC Server 2008, Configuring and Managing Set 2

You are a system administrator for your company. Your company deploys a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster that has a head node installed on a failover cluster. The failover cluster has two servers named Server1 and Server2. You configure the head node on Server1. You discover that in the HPC Management Console, the state of Server2 is set to Unknown. You need to configure the head node on Server2. What should you do?

You are a system administrator for your company. Your company network includes a DHCP server. You install a new Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster that has compute nodes isolated on a private network. The cluster compute nodes are configured for automatic IP address assignment. You also create a new DHCP scope for the private network on the DHCP server. You need to configure the cluster to support automatic IP address assignment for the compute nodes from the new DHCP scope. What should you do?

You are a system administrator for your company. You install a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition and a set of company standard applications on a new server. You install HPC Pack 2008 and configure a head node for a new Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. You are unable to submit commands to the cluster from the command-line tools because of an authentication error. However, you are able to communicate with the cluster by using Windows PowerShell and the HPC Management Console. You need to resolve the authentication error. What should you do?

You are a system administrator for your company. Your company network includes a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. All nodes of the cluster are connected to the enterprise and private networks. All network interfaces on the cluster compute nodes are configured for dynamic IP address assignment. The DHCP server infrastructure is deployed as shown in the following table. You discover that the cluster compute nodes are unable to access one of the file servers by using the host name or the 192.168.5.12 IP address. You need to configure the DHCP server infrastructure to resolve the problem. What should you do?

You administer a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster for your company. The cluster uses a network topology that has compute nodes isolated on a private network. Network address translation (NAT) services are disabled on the head node. Your company deploys a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) application. You need to configure the cluster to support the SOA application. What should you do?

You are a system administrator for your company. You install a head node of a new Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. You preconfigure 20 new compute nodes. You need to add the preconfigured compute nodes to the cluster. What should you do?

You are a system administrator for your company. Your company deploys Windows HPC Server 2008 that has compute nodes on a private network and an application network. You install an InfiniBand subnet manager service and a DHCP service on the cluster head node. The InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA) cards on the cluster nodes must use the IP addresses assigned by the DHCP service. You need to configure the DHCP service to support the outlined network configuration. What should you do?

You are a system administrator for your company. Your company implements a new Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. The cluster head node has two NICs connected to different networks and one InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA) card connected to an InfiniBand switch. The most recent device drivers are installed. You start the Network Configuration Wizard on the head node. You discover that the wizard allows you to select only the network topologies that do not include an application network. You need to configure the cluster that has a network topology in which all nodes are connected to the enterprise, private, and application networks. What should you do before you restart the wizard?

You administer a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. The cluster nodes are based on non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architecture. You need to ensure that processors prioritize local memory. What should you do?

You administer a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster for your company. You notice that the performance of a primary application on the cluster is poor. You discover that the poor performance of the application is because of processor contention. You need to create a job template that specifies the correct resource allocation for jobs that are processor-bound. Which resource allocation model should you use in your job template?